Water’s Edge, Plymouth Soundwalks

For this years Sonic Arts Network annual Expo I ran a series of overnight soundwalks in Plymouth City Centre.

All walks started from Smeaton's Tower on the Hoe, the first at 6:07pm the last at 4pm. Attendance's varied, with the most popular being the one straight after the Evan Parker concert attended by over thirty people. The least popular was, not suprisingly, the 4am one, with just me and Sonic Arts director Phil sitting on a bench listening to the fishing boats go out and having a very odd conversation with a young chap who was a tad `tired and emotional'.



Best listening? Probably having the group of thirty people sitting in silence, in darkness, in an ampitheatre next to the sea in the old Tinside Lido complex listening to the sound of waves and distant ships. Or the rippling of sails on racing yachts in the early evening.